Sentences with phrase «tympanic middle ear»

The complex evolutionary history of the tympanic middle ear in frogs and toads (Anura) Pereyra, Womack, Barrionuevo, Blotto, Baldo, Targino, Ospina - Sarria, Guayasamin, Coloma, Hoke, Grant y Faivovich (2016) Scientific Reports

Better late than never: effective air - borne hearing of toads delayed due to late maturation of the tympanic middle ear structures.

Two new studies published in the journals Proceedings of the Royal Society B and The Journal of Experimental Biology show that lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear.

The study therefore indicates that the early terrestrial vertebrates were also able to hear prior to developing the tympanic middle ear.

«The combination of a mouth cavity and bone conduction allows Gardiner's frogs to perceive sound effectively without use of a tympanic middle ear,» concludes Renaud Boistel.

Surprisingly, the measurements showed that not only the terrestrial adult salamanders, but also the fully aquatic juvenile salamanders — and even the lungfish, which are completely maladapted to aerial hearing — were able to detect airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.

A new study shows that they are capable of detecting airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.

However, anuran species have lost tympanic middle ears many times, despite anurans» use of...

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In the middle ear, pressure oscillations in the air are transferred via the tympanic membrane (eardrum) and one or three small bones (ossicles) to fluid movements in the inner ear, where the conversion of sound waves to nerve signals takes place.

Under a dissection microscope (OPMI pico, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA), a small area of skin as well as the tympanic membrane overlaying the middle ear cavity was removed using iridectomy scissors, followed by the removal of the columella, allowing visualization of the cochlea.

The tympanic membrane, an air - filled chamber containing three tiny bones (hammer, anvil and stirrup), along with the eustachian tube (an air - filled tube connecting to the junction of the nose and mouth) form the middle ear.

The ear drum (tympanic membrane) can rupture, causing the infection to spread to the middle ear (tympanic bulla).

The tympanic membrane also protects the middle and inner ear.

The masses may form from pockets of the tympanic membrane, which became adherent to the inflamed middle ear mucosa.

The middle ear contains the eardrum (tympanic membrane) and the tiny auditory bones that lie just behind it.

However, if there was lots of pus and no eardrum (which I would infer from the statement that there was a «middle ear infection with pus»), the middle ear (tympanic bulla) will need to have any debris removed from it.

This surgery involves the complete removal of the ear canal and tympanic bulla (middle ear), leaving only the ear flap (pinna) remaining.

Conduction deafness is caused by abnormalities of the pinna (external ear), ear canal, tympanic membrane (eardrum), auditory ossicles or middle ear.